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A Robe Without Recognition: The Long Road to Educating Sri Lanka’s Bhikkhunis

Anushka Kahandagamage Education is the right of every child. Yet somewhere between childhood and the robe, that right becomes precarious for many Buddhist women in Sri Lanka, threatening not only their social standing, but their fundamental access to learning and the institutional discrimination they face. This piece is not about Buddhist disciplinary rules, which discriminates […]

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